like a bass out of hell

I'm listening to/watching the latest episode of Heroes. It's a great episode.

I still have yet to see the new Desperate Housewives.

Anyway, the new episode of Heroes contained a well-welcomed-back Kristen Bell aka Elle Bishop in Heroesland. I was very happy to see her return. I knew it was only a matter of time before she came back after being fired. There are two very Veronica Mars-esque motifs:

1) Lyle (cheerleader's brother) says, "The bitch is back." right before the intro credits. That is actually the series final episode title.
2) Elle says, "...let's go see the wizard." The reference to the "wizard" from Wizard of Oz came up on two occasions in season one of V. Mars. Both in the very first episode of the series.

I love my knowledge of popular television.

Today in my World Lit 2 class we talked about Tartuffe, the play. I saw it once in high school, done by the competition class of theatre. I never tried out for the class, but I was asked to, so nah. Tartuffe, however, is a kinda terrible play. But it does have it's importance during the Enlightenment in France. It was even banned several times.

Oh yes! Last night's Gossip Girl. Let me just say one thing: mini-cooper. Oh, and what would the combo name be if Chuck and Blaire actually did get together? (combo name meaning "TomKat" "Bennifer" etc) My only guess would be: Bluck or Chaire. HA. Anyways....

Little Jenny Humphrey is a crazy in this episode and Willa Holland guest stars as Agnes the model for Eleanor Waldorf. Willa Holland, for those who don't know ... was Marissa Cooper's little sister on The O.C., Kaitlin Cooper (thus the name mini-cooper). Agnes gets Little J to quit her internship with Eleanor.

Also, Aaron (Aaron Rose, but not really the one from the book series) the artist is a "cutie" I guess one would say. He's very Conor Oberst....esque. He and Serena should hook up, but it won't last. Maybe Dan and Serena have another shot at romance next season?

I read recently that Dexter has been signed on to do antoher TWO seasons. Very exciting. Looks like it's one season that's not "jumping the shark," like another series that I love dearly: Heroes. Jumping the shark is when critics start to go badly. Whatever article I read today said that Heroes started getting bad in season two.

I know!? Who would want to get rid of Heroes? Did they say Lost was jumping the shark when people started saying that it was getting really crazy (mainly around season three)?

Who cares? Lost is still on for another two seasons after it's most recent season: 4. Still out on DVD, I think. I wonder when season 5 is going to premiere.

Sometimes I feel like when I'm writing my blog I sound like a Veronica Mars voice-over or Gossip Girl intro/outro. Whatever.

p&l
rachel

i'm a carpetbagger baby...

I wish I had my own theme song, like Veronica Mars. I mean, I wish I had an intro too. Something flashy and catchy, perhaps written and performed by Jenny Lewis?

I took Buster outside earlier and there are people in the neighborhood that are making quite a ruckus somewhere. He barked, which was not acceptable.

I'm drinking a two day old Michelob Ultra (1 pint). It's been in the fridge, with some tin foil over the top... it's not too fresh though. Looking at it now, I thought there was less to drink than I thought. Le sigh.

I've been thinking about the dream again, and how I can put it down on paper(digital paper, that is). I need some input from X and L, since they were two of the main players in the dream.

Tomorrow I find out two test grades: Bio and World Civ 1. I'm ready to know these scores. I made an 80 on my French Revolution test which is much better than I thought it was going to be.

I don't really know what a carpetbagger is, so I guess I'm going to do some research. I was thinking about that earlier on my way to class this morning. Well, according to Wikipedia, this is what a carpetbagger is:

In United States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who supported Reconstruction) in the Republican Party. Together they politically controlled former Confederate states for varying periods, 1867–1877.

I can't get rid of the links, so whatever. The picture was made by the Ku Klux Klan as propaganda against the carpetbaggers, claiming they would lynch them if they found them out. Or whatever.

Soon, in World Civ 2, we will be learning about the Reconstruction, well, the Civil War too. Just a little bit about it though, since it's not American History. I'm not too interested in American history. I had a little bit of that in high school, now I want to know about the rest of the world.

My cousin from NYC that was down went home today. We went to the Palace Casino and had the buffet, and I lost 2 bucks on the penny slots. He ordered two shots of tequila for us, and we did the shots with some salt and lime, of course. The way it's supposed to be done.

I'm kinda ready to be living in Mobile again, but I know I'm not financially ready to do so. I wish I could live on campus and still have Buster around, but we all know that's impossible. No animals on campus and all that. Not even to visit. Such strict rules.

Well, I have seen all the television episodes for Sunday and Monday, but I'm not feeling in the mood to write about them just yet. I probably won't even get to it. But I will say, about Gossip Girl: Chuck needs to get over himself and accept his humanity.

Jenny Lewis really is an idol of mine. She writes such wonderful songs, and sings them very wonderfully too. Listening to her is like listening to angels sing. It's the voice I assume Kristen Bell to have, although I know what Kristen Bell's singing voice sounds like. That last sentence just sounds weird, but whatever.

I have a headache.

p&l
rachel

BTW

It's not a very good picture (I took a picture of the television), but it is the digitized version of Kristen Bell from Assassin's Creed.

How life like.

Well, it looks a lot better in person on the television. Anyway, I believe K-Bell herself does the character's voice over too. At least it sounds a lot like her. It's gotta be her.

If I didn't have to bring Grey's Anatomy back to the library tomorrow I would be playing Assassin's Creed right now. Alas.

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rachel

PS: I was watching Grey's Anatomy and I recognized a producer/writer's name and I looked it up on imdb.com and it turns out that Marti Noxon also produced and wrote for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. How wonderful.

a fond farewell to L from the OS

So many things to talk about in this newest post. So many birthdays I must mention. Most important of all is that Kristen Bell had her birthday earlier this week.

Today is Sandra Oh's birthday. Also Josh Holloway. Matthew Fox had a birthday recently. Celebrities have birthdays too!

It's also Judy Greer's birthday, and if you don't know who she is, she's been in a lot of movies as the bitchy sidekick to the girl in romantic comedies. I think she was in Jawbreaker too. She was on Arrested Development.

I rented Assassin's Creed, the video game, last night, and I had too much fun playing it. I was up until 5:30am playing the game. But I feel just fine, I need no more sleep.

OH! There's a digitized Kristen Bell in the game. Very cool.

L just stopped by to get some CD's I made for her trip back to Oxford. I think I made like 8 CD's. She said she had listened to only Jewel and Joan Baez the whole way up here, so I gave her some diversity.

We all went out for margaritas the other night and we had a lot of fun. I love El Saltillo's queso dip. So delicious. K brought his mom and we found out that K's mom knew L's mom in high school. Well, I think we already knew that, but K's mom didn't. Haha.

Anyway, K is leaving for Louisville, KY tomorrow and I'm a little jealous that he's going to be having lots of stuff being bought for him from those sugar daddies of his. I enjoyed Louisville when I drove through it many years ago.

Now I'm watching Grey's Anatomy since there's nothing else to do on a Sunday on the Coast. My sister's gone to the river, my dad's being a bitch or whatever he is and my mother is going around the house, doing the house work, keeping busy so she doesn't have to fight with the wildebeest. How terrible is that? Well, it's terrible for all of us, cause we have to tip toe around him and what we say because we don't want to upset him. It's like this everyday now... it hasn't been like this ever. My father has a bad temper, but he just doesn't know how to lighten up. He laughs at comedies, but he still terrifies us when we don't know what to say around him or to him.

Whatever. New subject.

I wish L didn't have to leave so soon. I only ever get to see her for three or four days. She's by BFF, so naturally I want to hang out with her for more than that. But we had a great visit. Now that she's 21, we can go out and drink and do things like that.

Last night, M, L and I had sushi at the newest hibachi/sushi bar in Ocean Springs, out of like 5 or 6 in the small town I live in. It's crazy. It was delicious. I had a California roll and a Philidelphia roll. I also had a miso soup which was to die for, and two Sappharo beers that were more than refreshing. I do love sushi and Japanese beer.

Dr. Mark Sloane is hitting on Dr. Meredith Grey presently. I think he is. He's calling Dr. Derek Shepard a poisoned well. So many doctors.

p&l
rachel

I <3 Michael Cera

Michael Cera
Doesn't he have the most beautiful face? 

He's my male-celebrity crush. 

Since everyone knows Kristen Bell is my female-celebrity crush. 

I'm watching Juno right now, which sparked my Michael Cera thoughts. 

But he is one attractive guy, if I do say so. And funny. I love Arrested Development. And Superbad was awesomely funny. 

Speaking of Arrested Development, I almost forgot Jason Bateman was in Juno. 

Ellen Page is also pretty awesome. Ha, and I did say I wasn't much of a Jennifer Garner fan, but I do enjoy her in this movie. Maybe I do like Jennifer Garner. I don't know why I didn't like her. 

I change my mind. I like Jennifer Garner. Whatever.

p&l

rachel

Time is a curse

I've been thinking of things to write down about today, but I can't remember a lot of these things at the moment.

I do remember this: I was driving to Ruby Tuesdays to fill out an application for employment. I had put make up on. Mascara and eyeliner really irritate my eyes because I don't wear make up that often. But, as I was on my way to the restaurant, I closed my eyes slightly and I realized that with mascara on, my eyelashes looked like spider legs and it kind of freaked me out. Spiders in general, kind of freak me out. 

As usual, I'm watching Veronica Mars. It is kind of my nightly routine to end my day watching a few episodes of the show. 

I didn't get to see Gossip Girl on Monday, and I'm a little bummed about it. I'll get to see a re-run on Sunday night, so it's not so bad. Then, it will be just like seeing the next episode the next night. 

Buster is looking out the window. I think he's smelling something riding in on the wind. Now he's scratching himself after getting fleas from M's house. Or at least I'm sure that's where he got them. 

I can already see dust collect on my ceiling from my smoking too much. 

Whatever. 

I think what I'm going to do tomorrow is:

• lay out
  
• clean my room, yuck
• read books, which ones, I don't know
  
• hopefully get a call back from Ruby Tuesdays
  
• go through my books in the garage
  
• re-arrange my room? 

That looks like a lot of things I have head of me tomorrow. I don't know how much of this I'm actually going to get done. I know for a FACT that I will be laying out, because I didn't get to today, or yesterday. I need to become the bronzed sun goddess I once was. Those many, many years ago. Well, maybe it was only two, but you know what .... it needs to be so again.

Thinking of laying out reminds me of Jfer, Malibu and Kasi, I wish we had a nickname for her. If we did, I don't remember it. Pool time used to be our time. Laying out. Reading Cosmopolitan Magazine in British accents. I miss those days oh so much. It's terrible we have to be so far from each other. But I look at the puzzle piece tattoo that we all have, and it makes me happy knowing that I'll always have those girls and that time we had together. It was a time that is probably teen-novel worthy. A lot of things happened my freshmen year of college that changed me, and I think those changes are for the better. I'm more clear headed. I'm more focused on where I want my life to go. Kasi sometimes didn't like what we would read aloud. You see, Kasi had a "comfort zone." She rarely stepped out of it. However, I think she never really cursed before meeting me. I could be wrong though.

Maybe I can make it a summer project to write my own typical teenage novel. It won't be so much coming of age, since the characters will be in college, but it will be a more coming to terms with who you are, and to not be so self conscious, like people are in high school. 

Or at least that's what I think I've learned. It's not what people think about it that's important in life. It's who you are and being happy with who you are. What I mean, is that if I could go back to high school, it would be much different for me. I mean, I'm not saying I'd be uber-popular or anything, but I would be more outgoing and more not self conscious about the person that I was always meant to be: the outcast. Even though I was already acquaintances with almost everyone in my graduating class.

Maybe I'll read Madame Bovary tomorrow. I put Anna Karenina on hold at the library. I also have a Gossip Girl novel waiting for me there, so I should probably put going to the library on my things to do tomorrow. 

One of my favorite characters on Veronica Mars is Cindy "Mac" Mackensie. Mac is another comical character with crazy hair colors that vary from episode to episode. She's a technological genius and helps out Veronica with a lot of the more difficult hacker type stuff that needs to be done in order to solve the mystery. She's played by Tina Majorino, also a co-star from the hits Big Love and Napoleon Dynamite.

Another of my favorites is Eli "Weevil" Navarro. He's such a badass, but a softie as well. He's a good soul when it comes down to it. He is one for justice, and not completely bad. Even if he is the leader of the PCHer's: Neptune High's notorious biker gang. He's played by Francis Capra. He hasn't really been in anything you would recognize him from, besides Veronica Mars. However, he was on one episode of The O.C. I do believe I mentioned that before though.

I think I've talked about Veronica Mars characters enough for today. I wish I had started reading one of the more sophisticated books I rented from the library, but that hasn't happened yet, so I'm a little sorry that I don't have anything intellectual to talk about. I can't wait to start taking philosophy classes again. Or theology classes. Either one would be pretty awesome. I mean, any of my major/minor classes are going to be awesome, but I still have a ton of core classes to finish off. 

I haven't decided what I want to do. College-wise yet. Ole Miss or back to USA? 

Making mental note: I'm almost out of tea, so I should probably go get some more soon.

I love Logan Echolls. Ugh, ok, no more Veronica Mars, I said.

On Guitar Hero 3, my band was supposed to be called Mars, but it ended up being only Mar. Whatev.

p&l

rachel

PS:

Oh my God. I don't know why I didn't say it before, but I finally saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. 

It was fucking awesome. Mila Kunis ain't got nothing on Kristen Bell. 

I'm thirsty.

p&l

rachel

"This is Neptune, nothing happens accidentally," Veronica Mars

Here I am, quoting Kristen Bell. Watching Kristen Bell/Veronica Mars. Am I going too far? I almost started talking about her at T's house earlier when I saw she had a copy of the new Cosmo. 

I don't think so. I'm watching the episode where Wallace and a lot of other kids fail their drug tests and are banned from sports for the whole year. Wallace doesn't do drugs, so obviously Veronica knew something was up. Season 2, Episode 1. "Normal is the Watchword."

M had the day off, so I hung out with her and R. I didn't get to lay out, which was unfortunate because it was a beautiful day. I went to the library and rented Madame Bovary and The Old Man and the Sea. 

Tomorrow, I'm going to be applying at Ruby Tuesdays in D'Iberville, M also works there. She said she'd put in a good word for me. Plus, they're hiring. I'm also going to put in an application at the Sears in the mall in Gautier. It's not the most desirable job, but I'm going to go for it. R said he got a job there, but there is a drug test involved.

Madame Bovary is Summer Robert's favorite novel. Summer Roberts, for those of you who don't know, is from The O.C. The Sun Also Rises is the novel of choice for Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepard on Grey's Anatomy. 

We were riding around Ocean Springs today, and I realized that Ocean Springs isn't going to be itself anymore. I mean, soon enough,that hoe Connie Moran is going to turn this place into another Gulf Shores, Destin or some other beach-side wannabe paradise. Sans the paradise. I saw someone swimming in the water here. A child, nonetheless. We should protect our future. There's staph AND e-coli in that water. I shudder to think. I hope that child doesn't end up with gangrene on its appendages.

I could go for a chicken pot pie right about now. 

p&l

rachel

I don't know what to say here

So I just watched the newest episode of Gossip Girl. It was a pretty good episode after its lengthy disappearance. Damn those writers wanting more money! 

What am I saying? I'll probably be one of those writers one day, demanding higher pay. Who knows. Hopefully I'll be teaching or something. Or be a producer of a hit TV show. Ah, one day.

I watched a really good movie earlier, while eating dinner with the family. Pump up the Volume. Starring Christian Slater, circa 1990. It's about this high school teenage boy who has his own pirated radio show that his fellow classmates go ape shit over. Now, the catch is that no one knows that it's Christian Slater's character on the air. No one really knows who Slater is in their high school anyway. However, it's a good movie about oppression in high school and the right of free speech. Blah blah blah.

Back to the newest episode of Gossip Girl: Well, as you should know, we left off on the last episode with Blair trying to flee the country after everyone found out that she lost her virginity to not Nate Archibald, but - GASP! - Chuck Bass, the slimy, smarmy arch-nemesis of every female in the country. However, Blair doesn't even make it into the plane. Serena van der Woodsen comes to the rescue at the last moment and talks Blair out of leaving. People can't be that cruel, can they? Well, in "The Blair Bitch Project," Serena tells Blair that being a bitch is what got her into the mess that she's in and that she should try to start being more neutral and nice. Can Blair really be nice? Now it looks like little Jenny Humphrey is the new Queen B of the social circle at Constance Billard. How long is her reign going to last, especially if Blair is behind her dethronement? Do I smell tyranny? Mm, and it looks like little J is going to be taking the ex-Queen B's boyfriend as well as her social status. 

That's just a teaser for the new episode. I wasn't going to give too much away. You have to go and watch it now. Somehow. TiVo it or something. Just watch it!

Speaking of watching things, I'm a shame to my own words. I didn't go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall this weekend, but it's number two in the box office, according to imdb.com, one of my favorite websites. But Gossip Girl does feature the voice of Kristen Bell, so that kind of keeps me off the hook, right? 

Well, it's off to hit the books. Palahniuk books anyway. I need to call the junior college here and ask about summer classes. I think I'm still enrolled there. It should be very easy just to sign up.

p&l

rachel

Oral Biographies

As I've said many times before, I'm reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk and I just can't get over how good it is. 

It's an oral biography of this guy who did absolutely insane things and got away with them. However, he ends his life on television in a fiery blaze. He was also responsible for spreading a silent urban plague of rabies through his saliva. He actually does get pretty frisky with many ladies, as I've read thus far.

Speaking of thus far, I'm not even halfway done with this book yet, and so much shit has happened that I'm slightly afraid but anxiously awaiting to find out what happened to Buster "Rant" Casey towards the end of his existence. These characters are crazy, and I still don't know what the suns and moons next to the people's names are supposed to represent. I think it might have something to do with the "eclipse" period of the rabies virus that Rant spreads through his various hook-ups with women, I'm assuming.

Weird stuff. Oh, and I can't wait for his next book, Snuff, to hit the shelves, which is set to be May 20, 2008. WOO!

Attn: L :He's going to be in Atlanta over the summer, in June I think, and I REALLY REALLY want to go and see if I can get something autographed, hint hint (road trip?). Talk to him. I don't know. Snuff does sound like another mind-fuck-Palahniuk kind of story. Every novel produced by Palahniuk is just something of beauty. Even though some of the stories are quite vulgar and ugly, he makes them interesting with his intense way of telling his audience exactly how to do certain things that normal people would never dare to "try-at-home." To this day, I can't choose a favorite novel written by him. 

Next year, he'll be coming out with yet another gripping novel. This one, called Pygmy, has apparently already been written, or at least a first draft. Posted from the forums on chuckpalahniuk.net

Palahniuk says:

"I've just finished the first draft of a novel called "Pygmy," a dark comedy about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families.

The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

So far, Gerry Howard says it's the best book I've done. Fingers crossed for luck."

So I'm pretty much very excited about this one. It's going to be pretty amazing. But it's not like he doesn't do anything that sucks. 

To get onto the topic of oral biographies, I think it takes a lot of talent to actually make it work. I think if I tried to write an oral biography of someone right now, I think it would turn out really shitty. I need to start writing again. Writing things other than my wannabe GossipGirl/It Girl novel-project-thing. I didn't like how it was coming, so now I have to think of something new. Something more original. 

I just need to broaden my horizons, considering I've only been reading the Gossip Girl books and It Girl books recently. You write what you know, right? So I guess that it's also about what you've been reading too. I mean, writers read, don't they? Reading was what got me into writing in the first place, so shouldn't that also have an affect on a writer's style? Which is why I picked up Rant and some Hemingway books from the library. I think I need to do some more shopping on the library's internet database, or card catalog. 

I need suggestions for new reads. It makes me sad that I may be losing my intelligence every time I read a Gossip Girl or It Girl book. It kind of drives me crazy. Thinking I might fall into that mindset. 

There are other influences that could affect my mindset as well. For example, watching Veronica Mars makes me want to be kind of like her. Watching Grey's Anatomy makes me want to work at a hospital, even though I'm slightly afraid of them. Watching Lost makes me wish I were on the mystifying island too. And Heroes makes me wish I had a special ability like flying or cellular regeneration. Would I be evil- like Kristen Bell's character? Or would I be good like little Claire, the cheerleader. Ugh, television makes me crazy, maybe. 

p&l (for now, who knows how many more posts I'll post just this evening)

rachel

I'm a little perturbed today.... and I wish I could get paid to blog

Sons of bitches. I went in for an "appointment" for the call center for AT&T today, which I considered to be a job interview, and they said that I didn't even complete the "minimum requirements" in order to proceed with the application process. Bastards. 

I just had to vent about my anger towards the company because I would have made an awesome call center employee. 

Now.... I'm sitting at home with my awful sunburn. I went to the library and picked up Rant, an Oral Biography of Buster "Rant" Casey, written by the truly amazing Chuck Palahniuk. The classifieds are open on my bed next to me, and I'm tempted to glance over it, but I have a plan on how I'm going to get the job of my dreams: I'm just going to continue to apply at the Hard Rock Casino until they call me. The mass applying starts tonight. T said that they're going to be hiring groups of people each week, so... they have to hire me for something. Right?

Anyway, I also wanted to put out there that everyone should go out and see Forgetting Sarah Marshall when it comes out this weekend. It's probably going to be pretty awesome, only because Kristen Bell is one of the stars. I put up a new link to the Forgetting Sarah Marshall promotional blog. Kind of like the Gossip Girl blogs they have online. There is also another blog for the "fans" of Sarah Marshall. 

While I was on the road to Kentwood, I purchased the new Cosmopolitan magazine with Kristen Bell on the cover. The Sexy Issue: Not for girls who blush easily. That read on the cover in the corner. However, I left the magazine in C's car and I can't get it back until I go see him in Mobile this weekend.

Hopefully by then I will have either: heard back about a job, or my sunburn will have reduced in pain. 

p&l

rachel